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Originally Posted by A0tmsk
I just started working on a plugin for calibre using version 0.7.57 on linux and I am having trouble adding new plugins. I can add the ones I find in this forum, but that is all. Even the plugins Ive downloaded from the tutorial here do not work. |
I have never done a plugin but you are right the helloworld_plugin.zip that you can download from that page will not work as is because as the error states
It does not contain a top-level __init__.py file. The __init__.py file has to be in the top level of the zipped file. It can not be inside a directory within the zipped file.
Once I extracted the hello world directory and just zipped the __init__.py file up by itself, renamed the zip file helloworld_plugin.zip it added to calibre fine and it worked as advertised.
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Originally Posted by A0tmsk
What makes things stranger is that I can take one of the plugins from here that works, extract it, and rezip it, and it no longer works.
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When you rezip it do not zip the contents of the plugin inside another directory. I'm guessing when you view your new zip that the top level is a directory and you have to click down one level to see the plugin files.
See attached image to see what you should see inside your zip file. The __init__.py file is at the top level and it works fine. When you are rezipping it you must be putting it inside a directory.
Good Luck.